Rodney Atkins Quotes
It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.
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I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
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I only want to be involved in projects that have a very good and important message.
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I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.
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It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
